“I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”
Bible
“Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.”
“Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.”
“For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.”
“Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? / I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.”
“Thus they were vanquished there, and they went back abased.”
quran
“That He may cut off a portion from among those who disbelieve, or abase them so that they should return disappointed of attaining what they desired.”
